Based on advise from the Technical Review Panel (TRP), the Board divides eligible proposals into five Categories, as follows:

• Category 1: Approved proposals requiring no or minor clarifications, which need to be provided within 4 weeks and then given a final approval by the TRP Chair and/or Vice-Chair.
• Category 2: Proposals that are provisionally approved subject to the required clarifications being provided within a limited timeframe (6 weeks for the applicant to respond to the TRP queries, 4 months to obtain the final TRP approval should further clarifications be requested). The primary reviewer and secondary reviewer as well as TRP Chair and /or Vice-Chair need to give final approval.
• Category 2B: Similar to Category 2A, but regarded as relatively weak, on grounds of technical merit and/or issues of feasibility and likelihood of effective implementation.
• Category 3: Not approved in their present form, but applicants are encouraged to submit an improved proposal in some future Round.
• Category 4: Rejected.

The number of Round 6 grants per Category was as follows:

Table 5: Round 6 results by Category

Round 6 results by country were as follows:

Table 6: Round 6 results by country

Information on Round 6 grants will also be available shortly on the Global Fund website at www.theglobalfund.org/en/about/board/fourteenth.

An applicant may appeal the board's decision if the applicant submitted an eligible proposal for a particular component in both Round 5 and Round 6 and was not approved in either case. The appeal must show that the recommendation made by the TRP regarding the Round 6 proposal was based on a "significant and obvious" error. The appeal must be filed with the Secretariat no later than 28 days from when the applicant receives written notice of the board's Round 6 decision. For further details regarding the appeals procedure, see www.theglobalfund.org/en/apply/proposals/appeals.